21 Feb 2017
How the visually challenged in Alwar were nudged into independent living. ...
07 Feb 2017
"In resource-limited settings, people with disabilities have been left behind in the response to HIV. In the HandiVIH study, scientists have estimated and compared HIV prevalence and associated risk factors between people with and without disabilities. Pic. Sintef Technology and Society is part of the study....
31 Jan 2017
If your answer is “no, not really”, you are not alone. However, very soon you will and have to! Kathmandu was set for a two-day’s seminar for all Norwegian NGOs and their Nepali partners January 16 and 17. The organisers hope to see big changes in the development programs in Nepal.
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02 Nov 2016
Please follow link to report on Business, devleoment and inclusion of persons with disabilities (Fafo) as well as available presentations from the Conference
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17 Nov 2015
Celebrating the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 4th of December 2015:
Being a refugee is hard. Being a refugee with a disability is even harder. Globally there are about 8 million displaced persons with disabilities.
How do we ensure the rights of refugees with disabilities? What responsibilities do we have in Norway, both at home and nationally? Why do people who need it more have less access humanitarian aid?
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30 Sep 2015
On Friday September 24 2015, on the 70th Assembly of the UN, the 193 member countries of the UN adopted the the 17 SDGs. The disabilitiy movement has reason to be satisfied by the frequent mention of Persons with disabilities througout the goals. We have asked Ambrose Murangira, the Executive Director of the Uganda National Association of the Deaf to give us some of his thoughts about the new SDGs from an Ugandan perspective. ...
08 Jul 2015
How can cooperation between governments, civil society and privat sector contribute to ensure education for all? On July 6, 2015, national and international representatives were gathered at Oslo Plaza hotel for interesting speeches, critical comments and relevant questions....
07 Jul 2015
Clear recommendations from the conference Partnership for Education to Oslo Education summit, - Commit to ensuring positive discrimination for those children with the largest challenges, as equitable financing does not mean spending the equal amount of money per child. Investments for the most marginalised benefit the whole society, was one of the recommendations.
Nafisa Baboo gave a personal testimonial in her speech to the audiene: Myself ...
01 Jul 2015
Oslo, 6 July 2015: Solutions to the global education crisis do exist, but the quality of those solutions needs to be improved, and increased funding and an innovative approach are also required, say Norwegian organisations and Telenor....
26 Jun 2015
Join the side event of the Oslo Education Summit: Partnering for education.
The Education for Development summit in Oslo represents an opportunity to revitalize the global education agenda, based on the commitments made at the World Education Forum in Korea. Eight Norwegian Civil Society Organizations and the Telenor Group invite all interested parties to setting the scene on the 6th of July through the side event Partnering for Education. The ...
27 Apr 2015
All our thoughts are with the people, friends and partners in Nepal. They all need our help now. And we have a special appeal on behalf of the people with disabilities: Please, leave nobody behind! We will do our best to collect information about the situation and to put relief organisations in contact with Disabled People’s Organisations in Nepal...
10 Feb 2015
Before I was able to open up my shop, I was very dependent on others and always had to ask others for money. Now, I am independent and can manage on my own. I have also noticed that my family and the people in my village have more respect for me now that I am a business woman. Their attitudes to me and my disability have changed and they are now increasingly seeing me for who I am, not simply for my disability, explains Radhika from Baglung in Ne...
05 Feb 2015
3,200 Civil Society Organisations call for ‘no target to be considered met unless met for all: On behalf of the 3,200 organisations worldwide represented on the enclosed statement, we call for the criterion that ‘no target be considered met unless met for all social and economic groups’ to be included in the Declaration of the Post-2015 Development Agenda. The enclosed statement demonstrates civil society’s collective commitment to ensure...
23 Jan 2015
Before I was able to open up my shop, I was very dependent on others and always had to ask others for money. Now, I am independent and can manage on my own. I have also noticed that my family and the people in my village have more respect for me now that I am a business woman. Their attitudes to me and my disability have changed and they are now increasingly seeing me for who I am, not simply for my disability, explains Radhika from Baglung in Ne...
17 Dec 2014
Mainstreaming disability inclusion is probably one of the most efficient tools to promote the rights for people with disabilities. The inclusion project in the Atlas Alliance, established to mainstream the inclusion of people with disabilities in development and humanitarian organisations, is workings its way into Norwegian organisations. We are proud to present a brief sum-up of the achievements during the first year of activities....
16 Dec 2014
"If we do not include disabled people in daily life and in times of crisis and conflicts, we fail as civilizations", Mr. Arnt Holte, chairman of the Atlas Alliance said in his opening speech at the Conference People With disabilities in war situations - ignored and forgotten? on December 3. The conference gathered law and humanitarian field experts, representatives from the UNHCR and other international and organisations, politicians and – not...
20 Nov 2014
Niras har på oppdrag fra Norad evaluert norske paraply- og nettverksorganisasjoners bidrag til utviklingssamarbeidet. Rapporten ble lagt frem 28. oktober 2014.
- Rapporten gir en analyse av maktforhold i de landene vi arbeider, men reflekterer ikke over den kamp om ressurser og rettigheter som foregår både der og i Norge. Da blir også anbefalingene for enkle og unyanserte, sa daglig leder Morten Eriksen i sin kommentar da evalueringen ble la...
19 Nov 2014
Welcome to our International Day of Persons with Disabilities on December 3! Around 4.5 million refugees have a disability. It is a fundamental principle when thinking about human rights that the State has the primary responsibility for protecting and fulfilling the human rights of its citizens. But who is responsible when the State fails to fulfill its duties? What happens with human rights in conflict situations, and how do such situations affe...
26 Jun 2014
Emmanuel Akampurira var en av foredragsholderne under konferansen "Equal rights, equal opportunities" på Litteraturhuset 8. mai....
20 Mar 2014
"Capacity development is of great importance for all groups of persons with disabilities, in order to conduct advocacy work. But I would like to draw attention to a group to whom capacity building means much more, namely people with deaf blindness"...
11 Mar 2014
Persons with disabilities from 13 countries in Africa and representatives of national, sub-regional and Pan-African disabled persons’ organizations (DPOs), gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, the 6-7-8 of March 2014, at the conference “Inclusive post-2015 development agenda and UN CRPD in Africa”....
